Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive that the railway built in its own Roanoke Shops in 1948. The Y6b engines were among the most powerful steam locomotives ever built and among the last steam locomotives made in the United States, able to move heavy freight and coal trains without help. In July 1959 No. 2174 took part in the railway's Farewell to Steam excursion, running from Bluefield, West Virginia, through the Pocahontas Division and over the Dry Fork Branch to Cedar Bluff and back. It was retired in 1960, sold to the United Iron and Metal Company and stored in a Roanoke scrapyard until it was dismantled for scrap in 1976, after local preservationists failed to buy it.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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No. 2174 and the other Y6bs were notably some of the most powerful steam locomotives ever built, being able to pull heavy freight and coal trains, unassisted. They were also some of the last steam locomotives ever built in the United States.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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In 1975, United Iron was bought out by a British corporation, and the following year, in 1976, No. 2174 was dismantled for scrap.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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No. 2174 and the other Y6bs were notably some of the most powerful steam locomotives ever built, being able to pull heavy freight and coal trains, unassisted. They were also some of the last steam locomotives ever built in the United States.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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